diff --git a/src/Module/Contact/Poke.php b/src/Module/Contact/Poke.php
index d9fab36c02..73131daa41 100644
--- a/src/Module/Contact/Poke.php
+++ b/src/Module/Contact/Poke.php
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class Poke extends BaseModule
 
 		Logger::info('verb ' . $verb . ' contact ' . $contact_id);
 
-		$contact = DBA::selectFirst('contact', ['id', 'name'], ['id' => $parameters['id'], 'uid' => local_user()]);
+		$contact = DBA::selectFirst('contact', ['id', 'name', 'url'], ['id' => $parameters['id'], 'uid' => local_user()]);
 		if (!DBA::isResult($contact)) {
 			return self::postReturn(false);
 		}
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ class Poke extends BaseModule
 		$arr['object-type']   = Activity\ObjectType::PERSON;
 
 		$arr['origin']        = 1;
-		$arr['body']          = '[url=' . $actor['url'] . ']' . $actor['name'] . '[/url]' . ' ' . $verbs[$verb][2] . ' ' . '[url=' . $contact['url'] . ']' . $contact['name'] . '[/url]';
+		$arr['body']          = '@[url=' . $actor['url'] . ']' . $actor['name'] . '[/url]' . ' ' . $verbs[$verb][2] . ' ' . '@[url=' . $contact['url'] . ']' . $contact['name'] . '[/url]';
 
 		$arr['object'] = '<object><type>' . Activity\ObjectType::PERSON . '</type><title>' . XML::escape($contact['name']) . '</title><id>' . XML::escape($contact['url']) . '</id>';
 		$arr['object'] .= '<link>' . XML::escape('<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="' . $contact['url'] . '" />') . "\n";